The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-08-04

of ,us.-We learn from the Free
Press that. a substantial move has been
made towards establishing a cotton
mill in-the enterprising town of Kin
ston. Forty-nine thousand dollars
have been subscribed to the capital
stock AS. soon Is the subscription
reaches seventy thousand, work will
Report reacheslus that a man by the
name OF H~erson, in charge of a force
Of eo1ored hands employed by. the
railroad company had his squad at
Bridgewater, a small station in Burke
county, on last Sunday, when Herson
asked some Of the negroes to go after
whiskey, which we hear they protested
against, but he finally succeeded in
getting some of them to 60, and Her.
son and the negroes INDUCED freely
when the negroes crazed by whiskey
became manageable. A fight en-
sued IN which Herson cut a negro
with knife very seriously in several
places and himself received pistol balls
in three different parts of his body,
and is supposed to be mortally
wounded.
Edenton Fisherman and Farmeri
Henry Gray, a citizen and well known
colored man of Edenton, was found ip
a ditch, on Saturday night, in Har-
vey's Feck, Perquimans county, N. c.,
with throat cut from a to a and
body horribly gashed and mutilated.
It seems that Gray and Henry Dwinn,
colored, had gotten into some ~rdispute
while at work which resulted in a
fight, Gray whipped his assailant. Not
being satisfied with defeat, on Satur-
dar night he sought to waylay Gray
and did beset the path along which he
had to travel in going to his home.
When Gray came up his antagonist
jumped on him at once and with a
knife, cut his throat and lacerated his
body telling him to the ground horri-
bic to behold and lifeless. The body
was dragged.into a ditch cal by and
left.
Charlotte Chronicle: One day last
week the smoke house of Mr.. Green
Ray was broken into and robbed of
$50 pounds of meat. A search war
rant was issued last Friday and placed
in the hands of an officer who visited
the house of a colored man named
Frank Grier. "A search was made,
and the meat was found packed in a
trunk in Grier's house.-It is stated
that over 200 people from New York
will be here in attendance upon the
Mt. Holly fair.-Twenty-fve car
loads of steel rail were sent up the A.
T. & o. Road yesterday, for the
Taylorsville extension. The road is
now completed and in running order
to a point half way between Statesville
and Taylorsville.--Dr. FL. NJ Wilder,
the county physician, now has a rare
case under treatment, at the county
poor house. 1t is a darkey suffering
from e1epAamtiasss, or elephant foot.
The victim is a boy about 16 years
old and was sent to the poor house for
treatment about one week ago. When
he first arrived there, he appeared to
be suffering from some kind of a
swelling in his foot and leg, which
finally developed into a we'll defined
case of elephant foot. The boys foot
resembles that of an elephant in both
shape and size, and the skin which
envelops it is an inch in thickness. He
does not seem to suffer much pain, but
the exceeding weight Of his foot makes
it a cumbersome thing to carry about.
The boy is powerless to lift it, and
wherever he is placed by his attend
ants he is anchored. There is no
danger of him running away. This is
a strange and a rare disease, and DR..
Wilder says that II; is the first case of
the kind he remembers to, have seen
south of New York.
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